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New York, United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

Work with multiple company departments to create full campaign designs, graphic assets, marketing materials, and deliver for distribution throughout Cheddar News. Lead a project from brief to completion with a team of 6 designers and editors to meet all graphics requests across video, marketing, digital and social. This involves creating strategic plans to develop all campaign assets, such as motion graphics for live shows, sales decks, digital marketing ads, promotional videos, and social templates. Organize video promotion shoots, including creating rundowns, shot lists, booking equipment and talent, prop creation, and on-set coordination. Maintain a strict brand standard through continually developing new documentation protocols, organization and communication standards, brand style guides and proper usage of assets to ensure quality of all deliverables.Art director for three multi-collaborative 10 episode docu-series with streaming company Curiositystream, The Lightbulb Moment and NYC Revealed which received a 2023 Gold Telly Award for documentary television series. Designed and animated infographics, lower thirds, style guides, and scenes that support the editorial direction of documentary content. Collaboratively developed new graphic styles to enhance footage and archival assets, while emphasizing engaging ways to represent complex visual concepts. This included brainstorming, concepting, and designing motion graphics in conjunction with live action filming techniques. Managed and mentored a junior animator through to a promotion by teaching about meeting deadlines of over 3 minutes of animation per week. Collaborated with producers to animate data for over 300 YouTube videos. Manage the quality control of all graphics to meet strict brand guides and quality across multiple video series. Optimized YouTube thumbnails for increased engagement via click through rates, views, and subscriber growth from 150,000 to over 950,000 total subscribers.

New York, United States

New York City

New York City

New York, Ny

- Animate characters and prop elements using Adobe Character Animator and After Effects.- Work with a team of artists and directors to meet tight weekly deadlines. - Learn the the steps within the animation pipeline to assist other animation departments in completing scenes on time.- Complete notes and revisions in a timely manner for fast release.

New York, New York

- Managing and tracking data for all steps during the redesign of Nick Jr.’s on air promo bumpers and logo IDs. - Selecting clips from show episodes to use within on air promos. - Catapulting finalized videos for airing on the Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon channels. - Scheduling meetings and taking notes.

New York, New York

• Employ ToonBoom and After Effects to animate characters, producing videos, images, and GIFs for social media promotion across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.• Utilize Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to illustrate assets, spanning digital resources, layouts for children's books, and designs for t-shirts.• Simultaneously manage multiple external contractors and projects, encompassing 3D and 2D animation, social media content, children's book development, and YouTube brand assets.• Streamline the workflow for creating YouTube art assets via Breeze, the project management program.• Innovate in the design, construction, and management of props for live video shoots.• Pioneered the development of a new "let’s play video games" style YouTube channel, involving scriptwriting, game map creation, and the recording of improvised gameplay.• Employ data analysis from YouTube Analytics to refine video view counts and watch time optimization.

Hoboken, New Jersey

• Crafted numerous puppets by thoroughly studying the entire puppet design process, encompassing design conception, form construction, and meticulous detail refinement.• Engaged actively in all aspects of office operations, ranging from maintaining the workshop to organizing inventory and contributing to puppet construction.• Achieved mastery in crafting high-quality puppets of professional caliber for specific clients, consistently meeting challenging deadlines.

Providence, Rhode Island